The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-07
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ball ground provided for them at the expense of
| the village.
! HIGHMoEE ID. T.) man who fears cyclones
| has anchored his house 20 the earth with long
half inch iron rods.
DENVER society belle-young, handsome
and rich-was picked up by police officer re-
Gently helplessly drunk She was carried home
to sober up and her name suppressed
PERRY COUNTY IND. seems to be in a peck of
trouble. The County Commissioner has
eloped with 500 coo OF the public funds, and the
District Attorney is in durance vile for brIblng
Jurors.
THE salary of police justice in New York is
! 5000 per year, or more than 500 per day Some
of them devote only two hours per day to their
| courts thus averaging $40 per hour for actual
service.
H. j. DooLITTLE took refuge in an old school
house near Eckerty, Ind, from severe ram
storm, taking his horse in with him. Hundreds
! of hornets resented the intrusion and attacked
! the horse SO vciously that he died within an
hour from the effect of the stings.
ANoRw1cn Conn, newspaper says that there
is man in that city about feet inches tall
whose beard is so long that when he stands erect
it reaches the floor and extends out from ms
feet fully twenty inches. The beard is SIX leeG
eight inches long and is the longest known IN
history or fiction.
GEN. JOIN B1DwELI, who recently gave eight
acres of his great ranch at Chico, Cal, as site
| for the new Normal School of Northern Cali
! fornia, went to that state long before the olS-
covery of gold. He bought his ranch of 1000
acres for $1,000, and now IL is worth S@.V0U,UOO
and yields an income of 100000.
WHILE cutting oats Saturday farmer named
johnson, living near Oakland, Coles county, ILL.,,
was bitten by rattlesnaIe, from the effects of
which he died. He was binding oats when he
ran into largo nest of rattesnal 1es, and sue
ceeded in killing fourteen before he was bitten.
Other men who came to his assistance succeeded
in killing eleven more.
MILTON CROSSE, of Hubbard Ia, heard a loud
rl,mbling sound and presently saw the water
rushing down the south fork of the Iowa river
at great speed and at the depth of six inches.
The stream was dry and his cows were lying in
its bed. They at once Stampeded Mr.. Crosse
thinks there must have been q large spring
which suddenly sent forth its waters.
UP on the top floor of a poorly furnished
building in Adams street in Chicago, George
Scovil!c. the almost forgotten defender of Gui-
teau, has au office The years that have elapsed
since that famous trial have told upon him, for
his face is scanned by many wrinkles. and the
fringe of hair that still clings to his otherwise
gstening scalp has become snowy white
A. S. MIsENER, of Coldwater, Mich, went to
New York to get large sum of money reported
due his wife from an English estate. Several
hundred dollars were required to secure the
funds from the hands of the claim agent, who
put the money into a package and next into a
cigar box before MiSener'S eyes, and then took
it to the express office and paid 40 cents charges
| to Coldwater. Wednesday Misener called at the
office for his box and upon opening 1t; found
instead of the several thousand dollars a
neat bundle of paper the same size as green
| backs.
THE one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
no lat of ha lo
image or ikon which forms the principal object
of attraction in the celebrated cathedral of that
| city has just been celebrated there. 1t was in
| 1877 that it was removed, after a concealment
| of twenty-seven years at st. Petersburg, to
| Kazan by the Empress Anne lvanova. Before
| that its home had been at Moscow, and to its
| instrumentality had been attributed the expul-
| sion of the Poles in 1913. The ikon is attired
| in gold dress oTnamented with fine pearls,
which was the gift of the Empress Marie Fec
| dorovna and Elizabeth Alexeevpa, the mother
and wife of the Emperor Alexander
AN amusing incident occurred in the French
| Chamber of Deputies recently. N. Paul de Cas-
sagnac, while the House was engaged in vot-
| ing, unfolded a large blue placard, on which
| were inscribed the words, Amer Boulanger.'
| 1t was the advertisement of new liquor, which
| the inventor with an eye to business, bad dub
| bed with the name of the late Minister of War.
| The Radicals, Mortified at the proclamation, were
| loud in their protests. NJ Duche called out that
| the Chamber was not the place for advertise
inents, and NJ. Paul de CaSsagnac retorted that
they were in a ent1'' dcte. Finally NJ. Floquet
| crowded round the Bonapartist member, to re
| turn to their seats. This they did, amid good
| deal of laughter.
PLAGUE OF MOSQUITOES, said to exceed any
thing of the kind ever known there before, drove
| guests away from the shore hotels in the vi
| cinity of New Haven, Conn, on Sunday. A dis
| patch from that city says: AT times the air
| was fairly black with them. On Saturday eve
| ming fires had to be burned all along the coast
| on the east shore in the immediate vicinity of
| New Haven The insects so thick and
| troublesome that horses were made unmanagea-
| bic and people were compelled to sleep out of
| doors wrapped in mosquito netting. The mos
| quitoes are supposed to have come over from
Long Island There are millions of the insects
in this city tonight, and the suffering all along
the coast has been intense. The scourge was
abating somewhat to-day. If it continues it will
ruin business at all the resorts hereabout."
MISS AmELIE RIvEs is said to have already
| written rcams of matter as good as her success
| full Brother to Dragons" She has long been
engaged to marry Persian Minister Pratt, whose
| low financsal status has delayed the wedding
| for years She had the reputation, even in her
| tender years, of being very lofty parsonage,
| One day gentleman called at her Alabama
| home, and, as usual with guests, was kept, wait
| ing several hours until she finished painting a
| picture. As he entered her studio she turned
and said 'Now that have finished this work.
! l will devote some time to you" He bowed and
| left the studio, remarkng: Now that | have
| finished waiting for You, / will devote some
time to myself" The Minister to Persia figures
the hero in this case, as it was the first Occa-
! sion she had ever been matched, and she fell in
| love with the victor.
| VARzIN, Prince Bismarcks favorite domain, is
now considered the finest in all Pomerania,
which is saying good deal, considering that his
| next neighbor is the opulcnt Prince of Hohen-
| -Sigmarengen, who bought the larger
| half of the estates, composing the original Var
| 2in dominiun, fifteen years ago and who is
| both able and willing to add to and improve
| them. Prince Bismarck owns his portion for
now upward of nineteen years, and has con-
| stantly enlarged it by purchase and increased
| its value by prudent administration, more Cs-
| pecially extending and improving his forests,
| which, like those of Friedrchsrube, furnish most
| of the wooden pavements in the streets of Ber-
lin. In the park of Varzn there still stands the
| family mausoleum of the former owners, Count
| and Countess Won Blumenthal the preserva-
| ton OF which was one of the conditions of sale
w p. TIsDALE, Commissioner 10 the Congo
| Conference, while lending party off the coast
of Senegal was attacked by the natives. Going
in front of his men, who were all armed with re-
| peating rifles, he called out: who is leading
| this attack, and what is it FORE A big black
negro, with rings through his ears and nose and
naked, rushed out and answered in English: II
say, boss, what is you doing here!h The fight
did NOT go on. The negro who spoke 10 him ex-
planned that he was from Baltimore and had
been sent To Liberia. Becoming tired of the